Binding attachment for harvesters



UNITED STATES PATENT OFF CE.

EDWARD BBL-OF CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA.

BINDI'NG ATTACHMENT FOR HARVESTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,521, dated May29,1883.

I Application filed June 27,1882. Renewed April 30, 1883- (ModeLl To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD EBI, of Cedar Rapids, in the county of Linnand State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Binding Attachmentfor Harvesters, of which v tachment.

.15 A Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, formingpartof this specification, in

which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in allthe figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved at- Fig. 2 is a rear sideelevation of the said attachment with a part sectioned. Fig. 3 is asection of part of the apparatus 011 line 00 00, Fig. 1. a

A represents platform of suitable length and breadth, and having a rearend board, 12,

and anouter side board, 0, to be attached to the rear ofthe platform ofa selfraking harvester, so that the gavels raked together and brushedoff the said platformwill be received 0 over the front edge, (1, ontothis platform, parallel with side 0, to be taken by the rake-head 6 anddelivered under the binder-arm f of a binding-machine, whereof thetwisting or tying mechanism is to be located under the plate 5 g,located atthe inner side of the platform A,

where, after binding, the bundles will be discharged onto the ground.The rake-head c is connected to a staff, It, extending the whole lengthof the platform and working through l 4a a slotted guide-post, 15,mounted on the elevated platform j, over the binding-table, and.

this staff is connected near the rake-head to an endless chain, 70, by ablock, I, which is pivoted to the staff, so as to swing around the I 4 5ends of the 'guideway it, along which the chain is made to travel by thedriving-wheel 0 and the carriers 19, the chain being on one side of theguideway andthe rake-staff on the other, 7 so that said guide keeps therake in position effectually. The chain-wheels are supported in bearersq and t, suitably attached to the platform. The rake-staff his made towork the binder-arm f of the binding mechanisms by means of the slidingplate u, having a camslot 11, in which the wrist w of a crank, w,of

the said arm is arranged to work, so that the arm will vibrate when theslide at is shifted, and the slide ismade to shift so as to raise thearm f to allow rake-head e to pass the gavel under it, by the stud y ofthe stafi' h striking stud z of slideu. just beforethe rake-- head 0reaches the end of its outward stroke. The arm f then rests in theelevated position till the gavel has been passed under it by therake-head, immediately after which stud a of the stafl it strikes stud zof slide u, shiftingit back againto its first position and swinging armf down around the gavel into the position for the twisting or-otherband-securing devices to operate, which devices may be of any approvedform or arrangement, and arenot shown herein because they form no partof the invention herein claimed. The rake-head is connected with therake-staff h at its end opposite to the head by a stay-rod, b. The 7power for working the rake will be taken from the harvester by anyapproved arrangement of devices to be connected with the drivingwheel 0.

Having thus fully described my invention, I 8': claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with the rake-head eand its staff h, having the studs a y, of the slotted sliding plate a,having the stud z, and the vibrating binder-arm connected with theslotted plate, as described.

. 2. The combination of rake-staff h, sliding cam-slotted plate a, andthe binder-arm f, said stafl' and cam-plate being provided with studs,whereby the cam-plate is operated by the rakestaff, and the crank-wristof the binder-arm being arranged in the slot of the cam-plate,substantially as described.

EDWARD EBI.

Witnesses:

JOHN B. BUTLER,

J. B. MOORE.

